{"id":120508,"date":"2022-01-07T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/?p=120508"},"modified":"2022-01-07T22:57:49","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T22:57:49","slug":"qatar-airways-seeks-more-than-600-million-airbus-a350-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/en\/2022\/01\/qatar-airways-seeks-more-than-600-million-airbus-a350-dispute.html","title":{"rendered":"Qatar Airways seeks more than $600 million in Airbus A350 dispute."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Qatar Airways<\/strong> is seeking more than $600 million in compensation from Airbus<\/strong> over surface flaws on A350 jetliners, according to a court document shedding new light on an escalating business feud worth $4 million a day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Gulf carrier is also asking British judges to order France-based Airbus not to attempt to deliver any more of the jets until what it describes as a design defect has been fixed, Reuters<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2192 Qatar Airways is voted the World\u2019s Best Airline at the 2021 World Airline Awards.<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The two companies have been locked in a row for months over damage including blistered paint, cracked window frames or riveted areas and erosion of a layer of lightning protection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Qatar Airways says its national regulator has ordered it to stop flying 21 out of its 53 A350 jets as problems appeared, prompting a bitter dispute with Airbus which has said that while it acknowledges technical problems, there is no safety issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, financial and technical details associated with the rare legal spat have emerged in a court filing at a High Court division in London, where Qatar Airways sued Airbus in December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Gulf airline is calling for $618 million in contractual compensation from Airbus over the partial grounding, plus $4 million for each day the 21 jets remain out of service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2192 Uruguay submits plan to Qatar Airways get airline connection.<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The claim includes $76 million for one aircraft alone – a five-year-old A350 that was due to be re-painted in livery for the 2022 World Cup, which Qatar is hosting later this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That aircraft has been parked in France for a year needing 980 repair patches after the aborted paint job exposed gaps in the lightning shield, industry sources say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The largest customer for Europe’s premier long-haul jet claims Airbus failed to provide a valid root-cause analysis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The jets feature a layer of copper mesh under the paint to prevent lightning – which strikes planes on average once a year – from damaging the carbon-composite fuselage, which is lighter but less conductive than traditional metal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photo: Oliver Holzbauer\/Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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